You asked, we listened. We’ve noticed common questions asked by customers, and gathered the top 6 that Canadian businesses should ask an internet service provider when choosing their services.
iTel NetworksFebruary 29, 2020
Understanding DDoS and How it Impacts Businesses What’s DDoS you ask? DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service, which is an orchestrated malicious attack that floods a network or website with illicit traffic to the point where it ultimately overloads and crashes. Why care about DDoS? A loss of service costs…
iTel NetworksDecember 9, 2019
Increase Bandwidth, Simplify Management & Create Flexibility Businesses are increasingly adopting SD-WAN, giving them the ability to simplify network management, improve application performance, reduce costs, and increase agility. SD-WAN – Software-Defined Wide Area Network – can be used to enhance your business infrastructure, whether you’re in an urban setting or…
iTel NetworksSeptember 23, 2019
Managed services offer a way for businesses to get all the value of modern technology without having to manage or maintain it. They help lessen the burden of technology management by offering consultative solutions, products, and professional services that remove the administrative and maintenance headaches that can accompany certain business…
iTel NetworksSeptember 16, 2019
Keep Your Enterprise Connected with Managed Voice Today’s businesses need reliable voice technology that supports collaboration across your team and ensures your customers can reach you without issues. While many businesses can deliver customer support, sales, and other business-critical functions through automation, voice calls are still the foundation of communication.…
iTel NetworksSeptember 9, 2019
Robust, Up-to-the-Minute, Security Tools – Managed for Business It’s well-known that security is a crucial component of modern business, but cybersecurity technology has become increasingly complex. The wide-spread use of faster networks and cloud services increases vulnerabilities, and even many large enterprises lack the resources to effectively manage security on…
iTel NetworksSeptember 2, 2019
Understanding Managed Routers Today’s businesses need reliable connectivity, but as organizations become more complex – and the number of network services increase – maintaining end-to-end service can be a challenge. Equipment costs for routers and the expense of maintaining and managing that equipment can be burdensome, resulting in fewer resources…
iTel NetworksAugust 26, 2019
Managed Connectivity Supports Your Business as it Grows Internet access is foundational to how organizations communicate, transact business, and achieve goals – so would you trust a foundation of anything less than the best? Businesses need network connectivity that is fast, reliable, and able to support the needs of today…
iTel NetworksAugust 21, 2019
In a nutshell, attenuation is the loss of transmission signal strength measured in decibels (dB). As attenuation increases, the more distorted and unintelligible the transmission (e.g. a phone call or email you’re trying to send) becomes.
iTel NetworksJuly 27, 2019
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) have a key difference. When choosing what option is best for your company, it’s integral you know what service you’re getting without a veil of smoke and mirrors in the way.
iTel NetworksJune 6, 2019
Secure Your Business Internet Today A Gemalto study makes the consequences of failed internet security crystal clear for businesses: 70% of surveyed customers would stop doing business with a company that suffered a data breach. While it's impossible to silence all threats to a company's internet security, it's more than possible…
iTel NetworksMay 8, 2019
Clarifying What SD-WAN Can Actually Do Many enterprises haven’t updated their network infrastructure in a significant way for many years, and as cloud solutions and fleets of smart devices make their way into the network, there’s a lot of uncertainty around network management. Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) has emerged as…
iTel NetworksApril 29, 2019
Telecom Solutions that Cross Borders Connectivity between the US and Canada can be needlessly difficult considering how many businesses operate across the border. That's why one of iTel’s goals has become to bridge this gap. As a voice, internet, and cloud services provider, iTel has created partnerships with the largest…
iTel NetworksApril 24, 2019
Your enterprise relies heavily on your internet connecting, supporting everything from cloud business solutions to communications through voice over internet protocol (VoIP). If your connection is interrupted, your business essentially stops cold. Preserving business internet uptime requires that you invest in a failover method. Many businesses make the mistake of…
iTel NetworksApril 19, 2019
As investments in cloud solutions and particularly unified communications as a service (UCaaS) increase, enterprises are being forced to evaluate their networking approach for delivering business internet. Added bandwidth demands and the central role of the network in driving and delivering business objectives means that the traditional networking model is…
iTel NetworksApril 17, 2019
If each of your employees spends even one minute per day waiting for a download to finish, you can swiftly log a lot of lost productivity over the course of a year. Multiply that by dozens or hundreds of employees, and you’ll quickly determine that it might be time to…
iTel NetworksApril 15, 2019
Connectivity is no longer about simply supporting email and a little website browsing while your employees are on break. Internet connectivity is a major component of the technology infrastructure that supports your business, with interruptions impacting a wide range of processes from communications through transactions on cloud-based applications. For all…
iTel NetworksMarch 15, 2019
There’s a lot at stake when it comes to choosing an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for your business. Not only do your employees need to access tools like email, but companies also increasingly rely on web-based solutions for provider and customer interactions. Technology like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and…
iTel NetworksMarch 15, 2019
Your internet connection is an aspect of your business infrastructure that nobody will ever notice, until it’s not working properly. Slow internet speed can frustrate your customers, slow down productivity and limit your access to new technology. You can eliminate many of these problems if you choose the right business…
iTel NetworksMarch 13, 2019
Remember listening to the ringing of your dial-up connection, waiting to see if you’d get the celebrated static or the dreaded busy signal? Thankfully, today your business has an array of business internet options to choose from, and you’ll likely never have to deal with the suspense that came with…
iTel NetworksMarch 11, 2019
If your business is in the market for a fiber connection with faster speeds, increased security, and complete redundancy then you will want to read this. There are various classes of fiber connections for businesses, namely point-to-point and GPON fiber and it’s important to understand how they differ.
iTel NetworksMarch 2, 2019
The ability to collaborate with team members without borders is a powerful concept that’s not only completely doable thanks to today's complex networking models, but it's almost expected as the norm.
iTel NetworksJanuary 8, 2019
What are the Pros & Cons of Equal or Differing Download & Upload Speeds? First of all, What are Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Connections? Symmetrical connections are exactly what they sound like; a connection with equal download and upload speeds. For example, with a 500/500 Mbps fibre internet connection you get…
iTel NetworksAugust 24, 2018
We delve into the difference between twisted pair, coaxial, and fiber cables. Understanding the differences between the three will shed light on how data travels through each, which ultimately affects your connection and things like speed, latency, security, cost, etc.
iTel NetworksJune 27, 2018
iTel Networks Inc., a Canadian telecommunications provider and WTG, a leading Master Agent and Technology Sourcing Expert in the United States, today announced their new partnership under iTel’s Partner Program.
iTel NetworksApril 10, 2018